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12meg broadband is only 8meg trough router?

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  • 02-07-2008 9:26pm
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    cartman
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    i have 12meg broadband and i have tested this without the router on speedtest.net and it regsiters as 12megs. but for some reason when its on wireless(always) i only get 8... any ideas? i restored factory settings to no avail..

    cheers


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    dub45
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    cartman wrote: »
    i have 12meg broadband and i have tested this without the router on speedtest.net and it regsiters as 12megs. but for some reason when its on wireless(always) i only get 8... any ideas? i restored factory settings to no avail..

    cheers

    You will nearly always lose speed when using wireless. Is it a 'b' or 'g' wireless set up?


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    cartman
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    it is a g setup, ya i thought you might lose a bit but not 4meg... it seems a bit much for a g setup


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    franman
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    Im having the same issue. Im only getting 13Mb from my 20Mb line over wireless connection. However when I hook the PC directly to the modem I get the full 20Mb. Does anyone know if I change the wireless router or wireless usb adapter will I see speed improvements?


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    dub45
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    I think the increasing bb speeds are going to show up the frailty of wireless systems - the supposed throughput of 54 is nowhere near that in reality - just read reviews of any group of routers and see how they vary.

    However there does seem to be a lot of loss in both of these cases. Could there be any wireless networks near you affecting your performance?


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    franman
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    Ye when I do a search for wireless networks there is one other network in particular that shows a strong signal. Usually 40 - 50 %. But I changed the wireless channel on my router to be 5 channels below that routers channel. I thought that was suppose to counter any interference :confused:


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    dub45
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    How far are you from the router? Has the signal to go through floors walls etc? Although they are not generally a problem what about nearby wireless phones?


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    franman
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭franman


    Ye the router is downstairs and one room over so the signal does have to go through walls. no wireless phones in the house


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    PogMoThoin
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    Temporarily disable encryption to see how much this affects your speed.


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    franman
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭franman


    Ok I disabled security settings and it made no difference.

    wired to the router I am getting a speed of 2.1 MB/s when downloading this file

    ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso

    downloading wireless I am getting a speed of 1.1 MB/s

    The strange thing is that if I download the file over wireless twice at the same time I get a download speed of about 850 kb/s on each download :confused:

    I have also tried a Linksys WRT54GS router and I am getting the exact same results as the with the netgear router.


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